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| Authored by: TiddlyPom on Wednesday, February 06 2013 @ 12:06 PM EST |
I am a UK Software Freelancer (Contractor) and bought a high end Mac Book Pro (through my business) as my primary
laptop with the intention of dual booting it between OS/X and Ubuntu and using
it to learn OS/X development.
OS/X is vastly better than Windows 7 (and
definitely Windows 8) IMHO but OS/X is just too proprietary for my liking and
seems to be getting more and more open source unfriendly. In addition it was
very difficult to get the (SandyBridge Core i7) Mac to run Ubuntu well. Too
many things did not work properly or well. Having to pay for the compilers and
basic IDE did not endear Apple to me either. It was Apple's attitude to Android
that clinched it so I ended up selling it (at a significant loss) to a work
colleague who did want a Mac and buying a PC Specialist
Laptop instead (for about the same price) - no preloaded Windows -
yay!
I will never buy another Mac (nor another PC pre-loaded with
Windows for that matter). I am writing this on an Acer C7 Chromebook running
Chrubuntu.
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Support Software Freedom - use GPL licenced
software like Linux and LibreOffice instead of proprietary software like
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 03:28 PM EST |
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Work computer. No maintenance.
Best thing I did was get rid of
Windows on my home computers. OSX and
Linux require way less maintenance. So
yes, I'm more productive.
As to the different GUIs, it's like the
different automotive layouts. My Toyota
has the headlight control on a stalk.
The Dodge has it on the dashboard.
Only a moron couldn't learn the difference
in under a minute.
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 05:53 PM EST |
| How Apple could do that to a perfectly good PC is beyond me... of course, look
at the insecure POS they managed to make out of *BSD.
Proprietary software
on proprietary hardware is a step in the wrong direction.
Linux is an
aquired taste, for us early adopters, the benefits were certainly worth it. Just
not having to deal with anti virus software and anti Adware is worth the price
of admission for me. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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